Marchers confront the Assembly at Versailles
- When
- 5–6 October 1789
- Where
- Palace of Versailles and assembly hall
- Part of
- Women's March on Versailles
The marchers reached Versailles, where deputies received them; Maillard denounced the Flanders Regiment and the crowd demanded to hear Mirabeau.
At Versailles, members of the assembly greeted the marchers and invited Maillard into their hall, where he fulminated about the Flanders Regiment and the people's need for bread. The unprotected deputies had no choice but to receive the marchers, who shouted down most of the speakers and demanded to hear from the popular reformist deputy Mirabeau. As rain pelted Versailles, Maillard and a small cluster of market women returned triumphantly to Paris, while an uneasy night followed in which Parisian guardsmen mingled with the marchers.
Sources
- Women's March on Versailles Wikipedia
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